The collection is comprised of photocopies of the City Council Minutes of the City of Wilmington, North Carolina from 1988 to 2011. The library continues to receive the monthly city council minutes which can be viewed in the Law Library section of...

Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955; National Council of Negro Women; African American women

Copy print of Mary McLeod Bethune.
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) was born in South Carolina, the daughter of slaves. From these beginnings she went on to found Bethune Cookman College in Daytona Beach, FL, and the National Council of Negro...

This collection deals largely with James E. L. Wade’s involvement in the public eye in Wilmington beginning with his career as a city councilman and later as mayor of Wilmington in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The first box contains two folders...

New Hanover County (N.C.). Board of Commissioners; City council members; Pharmacists

Portrait of James Malcolm Hall, Jr.
James Malcolm "Mike" Hall, Jr. (1906-1975) was born in Wilmington, NC, the son of James Malcolm Hall, Sr. and Ethel Hall. Hall attended New Hanover High School and graduated from the pharmacy school at the...

Published journals include: Journal of the first and second conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the State of North Carolina ... 1817 ... 1818 / published by order of the convention of 1821. Fayetteville, 1821 [reprinted...

Katherine Bell Moore at her office.
Katherine Bell Moore (1941- ) was elected to the Wilmington, NC City Council from 1991 to 2005. She also served as Mayor Pro-Tem during that time. She lost her re-election bid after that and has since moved...

Robert Terry Gandy, city council candidate in 1995
Robert Terry Gandy(1950- ) ran for a seat on the Wilmington City Council in 1995. He ran as a Democrat, and was a retired Wilmington Police sergant and licensed private investigator. He wanted...

Picture used by the funeral home in Mr. Davis' obituary and funeral program.
Derick G. S. Davis (1920-2004) was born in Richmond, VA, and lived in Wilmington, NC. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW),...

Portrait of George Harriss.
George Harris (1863-1934) was born in Wilmington, NC. He was educated in the private schools of Wilmington and attended Cape Fear Academy. For a period of 17 years, Harriss worked for his father's ship broking business....

News photograph that ran in a political advertisement for Peter Grear for City Council.
Peter Grear (1944- ) was born in Wilmington, NC. He graduated from Williston High School in 1962, and ran for the Wilmington City Council in 1977. He is an...

Portrait of Oscar Pearsall.
Oscar Pearsall (1849-1925) was born in Kenansville, NC. He was educated in the public schools of Kenansville and moved to Wilmington, NC in 1869 to take a clerk position. In 1874, Pearsall formed a partnership with B.F....

Studio black and white picture of B. D. Schwartz.
Benjamin D. Schwartz (1909-2001) led a long life of service to the citizens of the Wilmington, NC area. He was born in Poland and came to Wilmington with his mother and father when he was four and...

Soldiers-- Confederate States of America; City council members; Sheriffs

Portrait of Walter MacRae.
Walter G. MacRae (1841-1928) was born in Wilmington, NC. He was educated in private schools in Wilmington and attended Harvard University, where he received a degree in law. During the Civil War, he first enlisted in the...

New Hanover County (N.C.). Board of Commissioners; City council members; Railroads

Photograph of Silas Nelson Martin.
Silas Nelson Martin (1828-1877) was born in Maine, the son of Silas Hosmore and Margaret Martin. He settled in Wilmington, NC in 1846 and joined the firm of Potter & Kidder. He became partner in the firm in 1953...

New Hanover County (N.C.). Board of Commissioners; Bankers; Grocery trade

Portrait of Henry Vollers.
Henry Louis Vollers (1859-1922) was born in Wilmington, NC, the son of German immigrants. Vollers was in the grocery business, a member of the firm of Turrentine, Vollers & Company in 1889. He opened his own wholesale...

Photograph of Merrily Locke in her home for the Star-News Woman of the Week.
Merrily Locke (1948- ) was a former teacher, American Red Cross worker, and political activist living in Wilmington, NC for a period of time. Locke also ran for City...

Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson walks down 5th Avenue in Wilmington, NC with members of the African American community in 1984. To his left are Peter Greer, Joe Wright, and the Rev. Ben Chavis.
Joe Wright (1952-1990) and Ben Chavis (1948-)...

Digital image of Madafo Lloyd Wilson telling a traditional African story.
Lloyd Wilson (1947- ) was born in Wilmington, NC. He attended Williston High School where he was a member of the Glee Club. Wilson is renowned as a storyteller, musician,...